Example Sentences

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He quickly qualified as a sharp-shooter, both as skirmisher and from the top of the trench.

From Sergeant York And His People by Cowan, Sam K. (Sam Kinkade)

The light skirmisher made a desperate effort to retrieve himself: "Then a few more books like his would restore the age of faith."

From Imaginary Interviews by Howells, William Dean

Ten yards more, then some luckless skirmisher trips on some unseen root, stumbles forward, and swears under his breath.

From From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days by King, Charles

This, of course, was from the light skirmisher.

From Imaginary Interviews by Howells, William Dean

They moved off, not in the direction of the park, but of the road, and I lay along the grass, peeping over a grave, as a skirmisher might, observing the enemy.

From In a Glass Darkly, v. 2/3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan